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Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 3, 2014
Pena belts fifth homer as Buffaloes sweep Eagles
Wily Mo Pena hit his fifth home run of the young season and Kei Igawa pitched five scoreless innings as the Orix Buffaloes beat the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 3-1 on Thursday to complete a three-game road sweep.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 2, 2014
Eagles rookie Matsui shelled in debut
Marquee Tohoku Rakuten rookie Yuki Matsui got a rude welcome in his first official game Wednesday, allowing three runs in six innings as the Eagles took a 7-1 thumping against the Orix Buffaloes.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Mar 31, 2014
Eagles would be wise to bring Matsui along slowly
Yuki Matsui is going to make his debut for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles during the team's first home series of the season this week, and he'd pretty much have to toss a shutout to match the hype.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 29, 2014
Shiomi guides Eagles to another victory over Lions
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles won for the second day in a row, 5-2 over the Seibu Lions following a victory on Opening Day, getting eight strong innings from lefty Takahiro Shiomi on Saturday afternoon.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 28, 2014
Reigning champion Eagles tame Lions to usher in new season
Takahiro Norimoto went the distance on Opening Day as the Japan Series champion Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles defeated the Seibu Lions 2-1 on Friday
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 27, 2014
Giants, Hawks look like class of NPB as season begins
2014 NPB Preview
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 20, 2014
Rakuten workers asked online merchants to falsify prices
Employees of online shopping mall Rakuten Inc. instructed merchants to falsify prices of products in violation of consumer protection laws, according to some of the Internet mall's tenants.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 13, 2014
Matsui to be in Eagles' season-opening rotation
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles manager Senichi Hoshino announced Thursday that his team's first draft pick last season, 18-year-old pitcher Yuki Matsui, will be in the starting rotation from opening day.
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2014
Small merchants embrace mobile payment services
Small businesses and individual merchants who previously shunned credit cards because of the required pricey card-reading devices are now letting customers use their plastic thanks to the advent of cheaper smartphone-based payment systems.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 6, 2014
Eagles pitcher Kamata to miss season
Yoshinao Kamata, who went 7-4 two years ago in his first year out of high school for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles has undergone ligament reconstruction surgery and will be out for a year, the Pacific League club announced Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 15, 2014
Rakuten acquires Viber web phone/messaging service for $900 million
Rakuten Inc., the Japanese online retailer controlled by billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, is buying the Viber Internet messaging and calling service for $900 million as it moves into social networking.
BASEBALL / MLB
Feb 9, 2014
Pitcher Tanaka leaves for New York
High-priced right-hander Masahiro Tanaka departed on Sunday for New York to begin his major league career.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 1, 2014
NPB squads start spring training
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, who last season won their first Japan Series in the franchise's ninth year of existence, started spring training Saturday in Kumejima, Okinawa Prefecture, in preparation for the start of the regular season on March 28.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 30, 2014
Tanaka says goodbye to former Rakuten teammates
Masahiro Tanaka bid farewell to his former Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles teammates on Thursday ahead of the club's departure for spring training in Okinawa.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 21, 2014
Tanaka keeps quiet about contract negotiations
With the deadline for him to sign a deal with a major league club looming, Masahiro Tanaka worked out in the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles' indoor practice facility on Tuesday and said nothing about his potential destination.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Dec 30, 2013
Eagles' future largely forgotten amidst race to land Tanaka
Watching the flow of a news cycle can be interesting at times.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Dec 28, 2013
The Batting Stance Guy waxes poetic on Youkilis, NPB
Kevin Youkilis' batting stance is, shall we say, a little different than most.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 26, 2013
Tanaka says he must 'make an impact' in the major leagues
Right-hander Masahiro Tanaka said Thursday he intends to make an impact in the big leagues
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Dec 25, 2013
Tanaka given chance to pursue dream in majors
Major League Baseball fans and executives finally found what they were looking for under the Christmas tree.
Japan Times
SPORTS / YEAR IN REVIEW 2013
Dec 25, 2013
A look back at the year's top 10 Japan sports stories
Japan Times editors selected these domestic sports stories as the most important of 2013.
China's military kicks off large-scale 'punishment' drills around Taiwan
A Chinese military ship northwest of Pengjia Island, off the coast of northern Taiwan, on Thursday
Woman and three children found dead with stab wounds after Tokyo house fire
Reporters gather near a house in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward where a fire broke out on Thursday and four people were found dead with stab wounds.
Kim Jong Un’s portrait elevated to big three in personality cult
A portrait of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is displayed at a national meeting to commemorate Kim's 10-year anniversary as head of the country's ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang on April 10, 2022.
Japanese researchers confirm blood test predicts risk of Alzheimer's
The latest findings by University of Tokyo researchers raise hopes that the disease may be treated if doctors can identify people who will develop Alzheimer’s before its onset.
China says Day 2 of Taiwan drills tests ability to 'seize' key areas
Chinese military vessels sail in an unknown location around Taiwan on Thursday amid joint military drills aimed at punishing the self-ruled island and its new president.
Shiba inu of dogecoin fame dies at 18
A sticker advertising dogecoin in Hong Kong in 2022. Kabosu, the shiba inu rescue dog who became the face of the cryptocurrency, has died.
Japanese break dancer on cusp of fulfilling Olympic dream
Japan's Ayumi Fukushima competes in the women's Breaking B-Girls semifinal during an Olympic Qualifier Series ahead of the 2024 Paris Games, in Shanghai on Sunday.
Japan panel sets out plans to accelerate drug discovery efforts
A tourist shops at a drug store in the Asakusa district of Tokyo on April 30.
New Japan study on germ cells may help advance infertility treatments
Kyoto University researchers have found a way to create “near-indefinite” volumes of early-stage sperm and egg cells from iPS cells — a milestone that could potentially lead to new infertility treatments.
As new Taiwan leader takes office, a fragile status quo and power struggle at home await
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te (left) and Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim wave to a crowd following his swearing-in at the Presidential Office in Taipei on Monday.

Podcast

Toshihiro Kinjo (center), a research support technician at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, inspects an audio recording device in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3 as Masako Ogasawara, a research support specialist at OIST, looks on.
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